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At 78, Norma Kamali isn’t ready to retire. But the celebrated New York designer is starting to think about how the company she built from scratch and has run for more than 50 years will carry on when she eventually steps back.
Typically, this kind of succession planning entails preparing the right leadership to take creative oversight of the
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SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE — Fifteen years ago, critics proclaimed Simon Porte Jacquemus’ aspiration to the upper echelons of Paris fashion a case of square peg, round hole. But today, in the airy halls of the Fondation Maeght — a sanctuary of mid-century art history in the hills above Nice — the designer pushed the Jacquemus proposition upmarket once again.
Inaugurated by
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PARIS — A wind of aesthetic restoration is currently hitting the fashion system. The clear message from the haute couture week that closed on Thursday night in Paris was the return of dressmaking, whichmostly made for clothes that were wearable, if a little boring. This wasn’t a season of dreams. It was about opulent realism.
A certain straightforwardness has
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PARIS — When Kim Jones said he wanted to show Fendi’s future for his couture presentation on Monday afternoon, he didn’t mean next season. He was thinking about something much grander, much more abstract. With Max Richter’s serenely ethereal soundtrack floating around the clinical, blinding white show space, Jones dressed off-planet couture clients for the year 2124. Which is
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When men’s artistic director Pharrell Williams showed his resort collection for Louis Vuitton this past December in Hong Kong, one product on the runway embraced a high-tech update to the house’s usual notions of luxury savoir-faire.
The LV Cobra — futurist-looking slip-on clogs that the rapper Future and artist Kaws raved about on Instagram — wasn’t stitched together
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PARIS — The world according to Coco began with a button, symbol of the ease of movement she brought to women. The short film that launched her brand’s latest couture show established the power of the button with its soundtrack. Kendrick Lamar isn’t going to make music for just anyone. And then the button, branded with the iconic double